Does she specialize in trauma or is that something he works with? I have come to realize those are two totally different things. I worked with a T for 10 years and we had a wonderful and trusting relationship. She helped people with trauma for about 40 years. However she didnt have experience with trauma a complex and extensive as mine. When I started to get upset we would totally change the subject because I couldnt handle it.

I have worked with current T for three years who specializes trauma. sometimes she pushes too hard and I disassociate or freeze, sometimes Infer angry and push her away and put up a wall. She recognizes that it is all a defense mechanism. We have discussed this multiple times. We have discussed how we can deal with it. It can be very difficult because what I can handle one day is very different than what I can handle the next. We call it our dance. She will push a little and see how I respond. Also she has been able to recognize a look on my face when she is going to far. She will tell me that she sees it, checks to see if we nee drop change the subject and do whatever she can to being me back to the present because we know that it ain't really her I am upset with but a reaction to what is being said.